Complex PTSD versus bipolar disorder?!

with PTSD you will get flashbacks or nightmares or other upsetting reminders of what happened!. You may be hypervigilant about your surroundings (to keep yourself safe,even tho it isn't needed aymore)!. You won't get these things with bipolar!.

With bipolar, you will have times you need only 2 hours of sleep or maybe 4, and get all kinds of energy to do stuff!. Everyone else will seem like such a drag on you, getting in the way of your latest project!. You may feel very creative!. You may be promiscuous, and spend large amounts of money!. If depressed, you usually will sleep long periods of time (regular depression often causes insomnia instead)!. You will think slower, and maybe have trouble thinking or deciding on anything at all!. You can get mixed moods too, where you feel so very sad and full of anguish, but you are agitated beyond belief too!. I get that all the time!.

You can easily have both!. I do!. I have bipolar really bad because sexual abuse can make whatever mental illness much worse!. I did some research, and about 50-70% of people who land in a state hospital have bipolar or schizophrenia, PLUS were sexually abused!. My psychiatrists (i've had a lot of them) say that it is right, there is no question the abuse made the bipolar so bad!.

All the best to you!. If you do have both, it will help you to get therapy to deal with the PTSD issues, whatever they are!. The bipolar will get better with a regular schedule and keeping stress down, but you will need meds for that, for sure!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

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Hun there are something that come with ptsd!. I was dx with that and then other things like major depression, bpd!. What my therapist said to me, it all depneds what state you are at when you talk to someone!. Then they dx you too!. I know pretty soon you feel like you have everything under the sun!. at lest I do!. But that is when we found out I had BPD and it make since!. you should resache it!. It is awhole bunch of illness together!. it fits me to a "T"!. don't stop fighting!. you are wroth it and hang in there hun!. I hope this makes since for you!. if you need to talk i'm here!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: (Notes from DSM VII)
A: Exposed to a traumatic event, must have both
-Witnessing, experienced, confronted to even of possible serious injury or death
-fear, helplessness, horror
B: Persistent Reexperience of trauma: 1 or more
-recollections
-dreams
-act or feel as reoccurring
-cues that trigger memory
-physiological reaction
C: Avoidance: 3 or more
-thoughts, feelings, conversations
-people, places, activity
-inability to reason ("forget")
-loss of interest, no more "fun"
-detachment
-restricted range of affect, (no change in facial movement, etc)
-sense of foreshadowed future (ie; What's the point, I'm gonna die young)
D: Increased Arousal: 2 or more
-insomnia
-anger, outbursts
-no concentration
-hypervigilence, on alert
-exaggerated startled response (ie;firecracker goes off, drop to floor)

So that is the diagnosis of PTSD

Bipolar Disorder is a category of mood disorders!. Bipolar I disorder is the presence of a manic, hypomanic, or major depressive episode with a history of manic episodes and is in significant distress or impairment (Comer, 2008)!. Bipolar II disorder is defined as the presence of a hypomanic or major depressive episode with a history of hypomanic or major depressive episodes that causes significant distress or impairment (Comer, 2008)!. There is also cyclothymic disorder in which a person experiences periods of hypomanic symptoms and mild depressive symptoms (Comer, 2008)!. Symptoms of bipolar disorders include mania, hypomania, depression, and mixed episodes!. Mania is

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